On September 5, 2025, the Senate Banking Committee released a second discussion draft of the Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2025, addressing digital asset market structure. This 182-page draft serves as a follow up to the initial 32-page draft released in late July, which itself was a response to the House’s Digital Asset Market Clarity…

The “cryptocurrency Wild West” that former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler once described has officially ended with Congress and the Trump Administration’s passing into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act; the first federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, specifically targeting stablecoins.[1] The cryptocurrency industry immediately responded to the U.S. government’s tacit…

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins indicated his intention to overhaul the federal agency’scryptocurrency rules and regulations recently.1 The move will be of little surprise comingfrom a pro-crypto administration but new rulemakings are a necessary step to cementthe promises of this presidency to the cryptocurrency industry. This regulatory shift,combined with a new White House executive order requiring…